Razor-guard.



PATENTED MAY 26, 1908.

B. B. GIBFORD. RAZOR GUARD. APPLICATION FILED APB.18,1906.

a citizen of the tirirr FDWA RD E. GIBFORD, OF ADRIAN, MICHIGAN.

Razors-ocean.

No. 889,183. I

Application filed April 18,

which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked. thereon, which form a part of this specification.

side elevation opposite This invention relates to razor guards and consists in the construction and arrange ment of parts hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out particularly in the claims.

The object of theinvention is to provide a razor guard of simple and inexpensive con struction, in which'the arrangement is such as to render it readily attachable to or detachable from the blade, and wherein provision ismade for adjusting the uard to the blade as desired and securely locking the guard at any point of adjustment.

The above object is attained by the structure illustrated in the accompanying drawin in which 7 igure 1 is a view showing applied to a razor blade a guard involving my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the parts detached from the blade. Fig. 3 is a transverse section as on line.3'3 of Fi 1. 4 is a to that shown in Fig 1. Fig. 5 is a perspective vicwof the back plate adapted to beniounted uponthe blade of the razor which supports the guard )late and upon which said guard plate is ad justr ably mounted.

Referring to the characters of reference, 1 designates the back plate which is equal in length to the blade 2 of the razor, and which is provided at each end with alaterally extending arm 3. Formed upon the outer edges of said arms and curving upwardly and inwardly are the lips .4 which form slideways between their under faces and the upper faces of said. arms, adapted to receive t 1 projecting end portions 5 of the guard plate (3, and are adapted to reciprocate.

Extcmling inwardly from arms 1% are (he brackets 3 upon which are pivoted the eccentric lovers 5 adapted to engage the inner edges of the projecting end the ends of the Specification of Letters Patent.

in which said projecting end portions Patented May 28,1908. 1906. Sem'al No. 312,316.

I portions of the guard. and bind them in the ways formed by the lies 4, so as to lock the guard against movement as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The back plate 1 is secured to the blade of the razor by means of the op osed spring jaws 9 which extend inwardly rom the opposite edgesof said plate and whose free edges converge so as to bind upon'the blade of the razor with sufficient tension to hold the plate in position thereon, the blade of the razor being entered between said jaws by 1nsorting it endwise.

The uard plate 6 is provided alon its outer e go with a series of teeth 10 w ich project beyond the edge of the razor blade to prevent cutting the face of the user, as will be well understood in the art. The extent of the projection of the teeth of the guard beyond-the edge of the blade, character of the work erformed and is varied accordin to the con itions of the face and heard. Vhere it is. desired to acquire a smoothshave only, the teeth are made to project well beyond close shave is desired, the teeth of the guard are retracted to enable the blade to cut closer to the face. These various degrees of ad.- justment are accomplished b sliding the end ortions 5 of the guard in t e ways formed y the lips 4. To allow a movement of the guard, the eccentric levers 8 are swung inwardly to release the end ortions 5 thereof as shown by dotted lines in ig. 1. After the uard has been adjusted, it is locked in place y throwing said levers to the position s iown by solid lines in Figs. 1 and 2, whereby the eccentrics are caused to bind the extensions of the guard plate in their respective ways. This construction of razor guard is very simple and inex ensive, and is of a character the arrangement of the parts enabling it to be readily mounted upon a blade and the guard quickly adjusted according to the width of the Havin thus fully set what I c aim as new and desire to secure Letters Patent is 2- 1. In a razor guard, the combination of the back plate havin clamping jaws adapted to mbrace the him c and having laterally extending supporting arms provided with je'cting brackets,

forth my invention, y

)I'O- thore being upon each of said arms a slide-a ray, a guard plate having extensions :ula te=.l to enter said ways, and

the blade, but where a.

blade and the desire of the user.

determines the to enable it to e readily cleaned after use,

the eccentric levers pivoted on said brackets extensions adapted to slide in said ways and for locking said extensions therein. to be engaged y said eccentrics to lock the 2. n a razor guard, the combination with guard plate against movement.

the back. plate having means of attachment In testimony whereof, I sign this specifi- 5 to the blade, and havlng at each end a latercation in the presence of two witnesses.

ally extending arm provided with a projecting bracket, there being upon each of said A GIBFOBD' arms an open slide way, and an eccentric Witnesses: lever pivoted on the bracket thereof opposite E. S. WHEELER,

10 the opening in said way, aguard plate having 1 LG. HOWLETT. 

